Example sentences of "[conj] i had come " in BNC.
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| 1 | The questions of who I was , where I had come from and where I was going struck them with confusion . |
| 2 | Where I had come from , in the English provinces , the markets were quite small , and reserved for food . |
| 3 | Everything here seemed so unreal that I had to come to terms with it as soon as possible , so that I can begin work . |
| 4 | About five weeks before that I had come home in my first university term , and got undressed for my bath in front of the bathroom mirror . |
| 5 | The driver assumed that I had come to see the church at Eyam , with its special exhibition featuring the events of 1665 and 1666 , when the bubonic plague visited the village . |
| 6 | I thought for a moment that I had come second ; I had n't seen Ben at all . |
| 7 | Then I watched the re-run on the screen and saw that I had come third . |
| 8 | It happened that I had come to ‘ cut and sew ’ necklines in class . |
| 9 | The Gendarme on duty at Boulogne Police Station looked surprised when I said that I had come to join the French Foreign Legion . |
| 10 | I told him that I was English , an ex-paratrooper and that I had come to be a legionnaire . |
| 11 | They were both so pleased that I had come , by accident , to make their day perfect . |
| 12 | I explained that I had come to visit Blefuscu , as I had been invited . |
| 13 | It was not surprising that I had come to hate her . |
| 14 | I waited for a full hour before I caught a glimpse of the sight that I had come to see . |
| 15 | I peered down and for a moment believed that I had come on Percy Bysshe Shelley . |
| 16 | Someone who would smile when I walked into a room , look pleased that I had come home — not because they wanted something from me , but because I was me . |
| 17 | I only became interested in public relations once I had come back to Germany . ’ |
| 18 | ’ And I had to come out a minute early to pay it back . |
| 19 | I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo . |
| 20 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 21 | I almost caused an accident coming back from Bedford yesterday , there 's somebody in an X R three i right up my arse so I just coming onto the motorway , the M four to Bracknell and erm comes right up my arse and I had to come out cos there was this car coming on you know , from further up the the lane and it was coming on and I was already on , so I overtook it let it did to let it come out you know ? |
| 22 | I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else . |
| 23 | I was debating whether to try to stop the bleeding first or to leave him in his uncertain state while I found a way out , trusting he would n't totally pass out , when I heard the main door creak open directly above our heads ; the way Harry and I had come in . |
| 24 | In my job , I had expected the sick and the dying to trust God , and I had come to the Sahara hoping to discover whether I myself would keep the faith in adverse circumstances . |
| 25 | Yet I knew there was something familiar about them , as if these ideas from far off generations had revived in me and I had come in contact with ancestral faces . |
| 26 | Hilda and he were in London on a spree , Viola and I had come out of the theatre for the interval — Noel Coward , Rattigan . |
| 27 | Hugo kept telling me my body was glorious and I had come to believe him . |
| 28 | We were n't doing the hours that I 'd agreed to do , and Silvia and I had come to a sort of arrangement … ’ |
| 29 | And I had come round ! |
| 30 | I think I should add very shortly that having considered the many authorities cited , even if I had come to a different conclusion on the issue about consideration , I would have come to the same decision adverse to the owners on the question whether the payments were made voluntarily in the sense of being made to close the transaction . |